CF-C1 cmos battery

Does anyone know where the cmos battery is located on a CF-C1? I've been trying to locate a manual for this model but it seems very hard to come by. Thanks.

 

I have dismantled my C1 last year, if I remember correctly, the cmos battery is somewhere between the RAM slots and the PC Card slot, on the MB. If you remove the DIMM cover, and look with a flashlight towards the edge, the white small connector and the battery (CR-1632) wrapped in some blue (?) thing, should be visible, but not removable easily.
Read (all) my thread about my 'saga' trying to upgrade the lower DIMM slot, and having to perform a full base disassembly - here's the post from page 11 http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/640836-my-first-tb-cf-c1-mk1-11.html#post8487101
maybe you're lucky and you can replace the battery without doing all this stuff.

I'll lookup my photos that I took then, when I get home, and attach a more detailed pic.

Are you sure the battery needs replacing ?
If you keep you C1 without a battery/charger connected for some time, does it retain your BIOS settings and clock ?

I have dismantled my C1 last year, if I remember correctly, the cmos battery is under the PC Card (PCMCIA) slot, on the MB. If you remove the DIMM cover, and look with a flashlight towards the edge, the white small connector and the battery (CR-1632) wrapped in some yellow tape, should be visible, but not removable easily.

I've attached a pic with the location circled in red.


Read (all) my thread about my 'saga' trying to upgrade the lower DIMM slot, and having to perform a full base disassembly - here's the post from page 11 http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/640836-my-first-tb-cf-c1-mk1-11.html#post8487101
maybe you're lucky and you can replace the battery without doing all this stuff.

I'll lookup my photos that I took then, when I get home, and attach a more detailed pic if I find one.

Are you sure the battery needs replacing ?
If you keep you C1 without a battery/charger connected for some time, does it retain your BIOS settings and clock ?

 

I would love a copy of the service manual - Thank You!

I just purchased a CF-C1 off ebay and had an issue getting into the bios. Disconnecting the 2032 battery for two hours didn't solve my problem as everything get's retained. I know it's a touchy subject here so I won't go into details.
This is an awesome convertible.

 

go ask the seller for the password. other than replacing the whole MB (~$300) there's no known way get rid of it.
the service manual won't be of any help to you for this; it's just some exploded views, and some part numbers.

 

Seller couldn't help me. Guess I need to contact Panny and see if they can help me.

 

From what I have seen and heard all they recommend is a motherboard replacement.

 

Contacting Panasonic will be a waste of time, they will send you to Heartland Services which does all there service work for them. The price is not cheap... $200.00 and up. . A member about 6 monhs ago got his CF-19 done and it cost $260.00.

 

Maybe a dumb question, but do you really NEED to get into the bios? What settings are you trying to change?

 

Luckily the boot order was correct for me on this machine so for now it's not critical to have access. At some point I've needed access to bios on every computer I've ever owned for troubleshooting purposes so getting to it now will save me time in the future.

 

In some of my bios experimenting the bios was locked and I screwed up the boot order back to default by unplugging the bios battery. Just a warning.

 

That would have been unfortunate for me. Luckily the boot order did not change after I pulled the cmos battery. Dis-assembly of the C1 was not fun but the I really hate anything held together with glue or double sided tape. Key board removal was brutal!

 

I second that opinion, it's a pain in the rear end to remove the KB, and the other parts. I hope my how(not)-to tutorial and pictures, and the manual helped a bit; I didn't have any of that, when I did my dis-assembly.

Just curious, can you tell me what are your Idle, Load (& ambient) temperature readings on your mk2 ?
I consider mine a bit high, and the next time I'll open it up, maybe I'll replace the thermal pads/paste in the cooling assembly.

I use HwMonitor ( CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting) for sensor stuff, some consider RealTemp to be more accurate.

Thnx